Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine

[John Foust]

At 02:27 PM 11/16/2004, you wrote:
>Take a look at this <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/Fw%20%5bVTOD-L%5d%20Fw%20Picture%20from%201.jpg>

Did you scan this?  I suspect forgery.  Most of those controls
are analog.  It looks more like the bridge of a ship.  The 
printer / keyboard seems anachronistic.  Is that a DECwriter?
And why would the greenbar come out the front?  Along with 
the TV, they look pasted-in.  The text looks like it was 
rendered in Photoshop, not scanned.  And FORTRAN might've been 
invented at IBM in 1954, was it actually well-known?

- John